SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Lawmakers of the Sadrist movement in the Iraqi council of representatives on Friday approved Sadr’s demand to withdraw from the parliament.
The lawmakers of the Sadrist movement signed their resignation after Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and the leader of the party had requested on Thursday as the preparation to dissolve the parliament.
Earlier on Thursday, Sadr had directed his party lawmakers to resign from the Iraqi council of representatives.
“The country’s reform will only take place with a national majority government,” he said.
Despite his emphasis on forming a ‘majoritarian’ government, Sadr also called upon the ongoing political stalemate in the country as a ‘Man-Made’ situation created by the political parties.
Iraq has entered a political stalemate since March when the Iraqi parliament failed to elect a new president due to disputes between the political parties.
in October 2021 the country held its last parliamentary election in which Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was declared as the biggest winner of the election.
Following his major wining Sadr announced that they want to form a national ‘majoritarian government’, for that reason, a tripartite alliance was formed in order to establish the largest parliamentary bloc for the government formation.
The Sadrist Movement led by Shia cleric Moqtada and Taqaddum Party of Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) were included in the “Save the Nation” alliance.
While on the other hand other Shia blocs and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) rejected Sadr’s proposal.
The Shiite Coordination Framework includes the other Shia parties except for the Sadrist Movement
The coordination Framework and the (PUK) demanded the formation of a government based on consent between all political parties rather than the majority, as the result, “Save the Nation” had failed to form the largest parliamentary bloc.
Since then, the country is going through the longest political deadlock.
Under a power-sharing system designed to avoid sectarian conflict, Iraq’s president is a Kurd, its prime minister a Shia, and its parliament speaker a Sunni.
